National security and public health experts fear that the two world powers are heading into a new Cold War that could seriously undermine joint efforts to quash the virus and salvage the global economy.
Washington | When President Donald Trump took the podium at the White House briefing room one afternoon last week, his prepared remarks included a reference to the “corona virus". But a close-up photograph revealed that Trump had used one of his signature Sharpies to cross out the word “corona”, changing the phrase to “Chinese virus.”
Trump was scathing as he accused Beijing of concealing the outbreak first detected in Wuhan that has become a pandemic now paralysing the United States.
